Assessment of teaching competence
Teaching competence is assessed based on a teaching portfolio and a teaching demonstration in tenure track and professor recruitments and advancement evaluations, as well as in recruitments and advancement evaluations within the teaching-oriented career model. In some other positions, teaching competence may also be assessed.
You attach a teaching portfolio to the application. In your teaching portfolio, you describe the different areas of your teaching competence. When preparing the teaching portfolio, you should take into account the selection criteria for the position applied for, as well as our university’s teaching-competence assessment criteria.
The teaching portfolio must be no more than five (5) pages in length, and we ask that you follow the structure below:
- Teaching philosophy, teaching strategies and teaching methods
- Description of you as a teacher
- Practical experience in teaching, development of teaching, digital teaching competence and giving feedback (how you provide feedback to students), possible participation in continuous learning provision, and international educational collaboration
- Production and use of learning materials, including open educational resources
- Maintaining and developing your own teaching and supervision competence; description of your pedagogical training; the significance of research in maintaining and developing your teaching and supervision competence
- Feedback received on teaching (student evaluations, peer evaluations, awards and approved teaching demonstrations) and counter-feedback
- Vision for the development of your teaching: briefly outline your plans for developing your teaching and teaching work in the near future, for example, in relation to the study programme’s curriculum
The recruitment committee responsible for the recruitment will determine the content of the teaching demonstration and arrange the demonstration accordingly.
You will be informed well in advance of the teaching demonstration about the topic, target group, allocated time, language to be used, assessors, and practical instructions. The teaching demonstration typically lasts 20–30 minutes.
Your teaching competence is assessed in accordance with our university’s unified guidelines across various areas using a scale of 1–5 (poor–excellent).